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Foundations of the Modern World - Final Inquiry Unit: Writing and Citing

A guide to help you through the process of selecting a topic for inquiry, exploring, asking good questions, and discovering your answers for your Personalized Research Project

Through your inquiry process, you have gotten an idea of the ongoing conversation among scholars about this topic. Now it's time to chime in with your thoughts!

You have read your scholarly sources with your research question in mind. Maybe now you have an idea of how to answer that research question.

Your stated answer to your research question is your thesis statement.

As you write, use pieces of information, quotations, and ideas that you found from the work of other scholars. Include these with proper citations to provide context and evidence for your thoughts.

Use your outline to plan how you will structure your argument.